From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using only one emacs session Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 01:07:06 +0800 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242408548 4114 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2009 17:29:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:29:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 15 19:29:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M51DL-0007o9-6O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 19:28:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M51DK-0001rL-9O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 13:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M51Cy-0001rG-V9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 13:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M51Ct-0001lb-KM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 13:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39449 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M51Ct-0001lM-CE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 13:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58834 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M51Cs-0000dE-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 13:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M51Cn-0002Nt-2x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 17:28:21 +0000 Original-Received: from 114.245.141.168 ([114.245.141.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 17:28:21 +0000 Original-Received: from william.xwl by 114.245.141.168 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 17:28:21 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.245.141.168 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vorlq7iKO9cNqqmRKRigVNypC5M= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64474 Archived-At: Francis Moreau writes: > The advantage of this is that each emacs can be customized according > to the project it tracks: for example project #1 has a peculiar > compile command ("make -j4...") whereas project #2 does "gcc -Wall..." > for compiling the project. For that I would open multiple shell or eshell buffers for them. > Also I like to have some specific buffer layouts to be easily set so I > use the 'window' package: for example I keep in window #2 of emacs #3 > some buffers doing irc on a specific irc server. How about `C-x r w' or window-configuration-to-register? > The drawbacks of that is the multiple instance of emacs: each instance > can't exchange data, emacsclient is more difficult to setup... Why? The traditional emacsclient is rather easy to setup: (server-start) Then, $ emacsclient FILE -- William http://xwl.appspot.com